VDI Enterprise Environment Recompose Best Pratices
Hi all, would be great if some of you could share their experiences regarding recomposing. We have 22 pools and 17 Gold Images and around 1000 VM's.We had some issues in the past during and after the...
View ArticleVMWare & Chromebook announcement, does this mean a client for Chromebook?
Yesterday VMWare and Google had a joint announcement about allowing a Chromebook to access a View desktop. As you know, this can already be done using HTML5 and the Blast Protocol. My understanding is...
View ArticleVMWare & Chromebook announcement, does this mean a client for Chromebook?
Yesterday VMWare and Google had a joint announcement about allowing a Chromebook to access a View desktop. As you know, this can already be done using HTML5 and the Blast Protocol. My understanding is...
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What do you use for Windows 7 Ent 64-bit deployment in regards to vCPU and...
Hi guys, In my environment we are currently running Windows 7 Ent 64-bit with 2x vCPU and 2.5 GB RAM.Everything works fine but recently I just did a free health check from Xangati and would like to see...
View ArticleMaximum Windows 7 RAM with VDGA PCI passthrough?
Hi, when I try to assign a VM a PCI passthrough GRID card and power it on, it fails if I have more than 32GB of RAM assigned to the VM. The error message is: An error was received from the ESX host...
View ArticleMicrosoft licensing costs making VDI cost prohibitive
We are a University and use VMView. We have about 300-350 concurrent connections at any time on most days. We use zero clients in out library and some labs, and also use VDI so students can access...
View ArticleDifficulties connecting from Windows RT
Dear all, I have been using VMWare view for some time from different environments to connect to my company's server without any problem. Now I have purchased a Microsoft Surface RT 2 and one the first...
View ArticleIE saying its not installed
We are currently experiencing an issue where users log in to a view desktop click on IE in the taskbar and it says that IE is not installed and if they wish to unpin the item.we are using a linked...
View Articleis it Possible to: Log off user when new user logs in
Hi all, i'm new to Vmware view and i don't want to use it as it was meant to be used.... i want to use it as a KVM sollution to the vm's on my Vsphere. i can't use vsphere for this because i need multi...
View Articleis it possible to used Vmware Horizons View and SAML from other idp than...
I'm actually wondering If I can used SAML to open a View desktop with an other IDP than Horizon Workspace that came from an untrusted domaine ? Does anyone try this option ?
View ArticleTiny Core Linux Connection Issues
I used the Tiny Core Builder website to build my custom ISO, but I'm having a connectivity issue. Once the Tiny Core boots and launches View I'm getting a connection error, after about twenty seconds I...
View ArticleAre Dell "Express Flash PCIe SSD drives" similar to Fusion-io cards and is...
Hi all, I was planning on using Fusion-io flash in a Dell M620 but unfortunately there is no Fusion-io solution for that blade model. I found out Dell has "Express Flash PCIe SSD drives" which can be...
View ArticleVMware VDI and Adobe Creative Suite Issues
I have a client who is trying to do a pilot of VMware horizon 5.3. They are using Wyse thin clients to connect to view. They are having some major performance issues with Adobe creative suite version 6...
View ArticleView composer with local storage - copy over network?
Question:When I create a linked clone desktop pool on local storage, a replica is created on each local datastore where linked clones are created. When the parent-VM is located on shared storage,...
View Articleview pool settings question. maxed out when it should not be.
Im having an issue where my pool is at 16 available (max) and none of them are being used. ideally i would like it to start off with 6 then provision on demand as needed. below are my settings for my...
View ArticleWildcard Certificates on Security Servers in 5.3
Hello all, I recently raised a support request with VMware regarding our new Wildcard certificate not working. I was told that since our certificate has multiple levels of domains (ours is...
View Articlemultiple monitors under 5.3
Hi, I upgraded to 5.3 recently and this seems to have had an effect on multiple monitor support... My monitors are now turned around... main display is on the right instead of the left and on my...
View ArticleRecompose issues
Hi all, Been having a few issues today with one of our pools. I recomposed one of our pools of about 40 machines. The machines failed to recompose and are stuck in customizing. They all have the...
View ArticleAny idea what causes this error: "The view connection server connection...
When I'm using the view client from home with our corporate VPN, I get the following error about 25% of the time: "The view connection server connection failed. The handle is in the wrong state for the...
View ArticleBest Resources for VGX
I'm looking into VGX, but am having trouble identifying a good information resource. VMware, nVidia, etc. all have their marketing information, but where is a good place to get 'real' information about...
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